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Julia, I have to say that is really inspirational; at various times when it wasn't going that well, just knowing you had built that loco kept me trying. It's also nice to know that the chassis took several attempts!, makes me feel a bit better about my sorry attempts!

Nice work work snowwolflair, don't have much done, what I do have will post soon, just recovering from work, did about 2000km driving in 4 days. Just to say had a lot of problems with Dapol chassis, finally sorted it substituting the pins for 12BA bolts, hope to start on another chassis though, this one will be brass though, with drop in wheel sets - photos to follow when i have had a lay down! ( It hasn't helped we have hyad two bank holidays this week in Spain, and every man and his donkey were on the roads)

Nice work work snowwolflair, don't have much done, what I do have will post soon, just recovering from work, did about 2000km driving in 4 days. Just to say had a lot of problems with Dapol chassis, finally sorted it substituting the pins for 12BA bolts, hope to start on another chassis though, this one will be brass though, with drop in wheel sets - photos to follow when i have had a lay down! ( It hasn't helped we have hyad two bank holidays this week in Spain, and every man and his donkey were on the roads)

That's a lot of Km, glad I put that part of my career behind me.

A thought If the 12BA bolt threads need to be smoothed then as the mechanism is running put a drop of Brasso on the bearings. You will need to wash it out later with oil but the abrasive polishing effect works very well. It is a tip I was given by a 2mm modeler who smooths his gearboxes this way.

Hi Snowwolflair thanks for the tip about using Brasso, will be trying it out. Some more Pics of my progress.

The start of the chassis build with 14Ba bolts

Another view with 2 sets soldered and cut down

A problem with the motor mount/ weight is it is too big to fit in the body as it is, so i cut it down, you can trim the body back also, but will end up with very little material around the valence

Cut down motor mount, also ground some material off around the wheel arches, these wheels are slightly larger

Trial fit

Cylinders all soldered up, mounted on styrene, as the wheels are tapped to 14Ba with the bolts fitted for crank pins, each connecting rod is either positive or negative, and all brass will create a short

Getting there!

And this the remains of chassis mk1, but i hope to turn it into chassis mk3, with farish wheels and 16Ba crank pins, time will tell